First published at 05:07 UTC on July 14th, 2019.
This is the twelfth chapter of Varieties of Fascism as written by Professor Eugen Weber. At this stop, Belgium. Eugen Weber's look at Belgium starts, like most other state examples, by locating the nascent movements that later sprouted into eit…
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This is the twelfth chapter of Varieties of Fascism as written by Professor Eugen Weber. At this stop, Belgium. Eugen Weber's look at Belgium starts, like most other state examples, by locating the nascent movements that later sprouted into either fascist or national socialist ideological movements and parties. Here is no exception. Professor Weber focuses predominantly on the Belgian Fascist and Walloon SS leader Leon Degrelle and his Rexist party. A monarchic fascist movement, Eugen Weber describes its birth through the revolutionary socialism of Jesuit aligned clergy and university youths. The discussion focuses primarily on the late half of the inter-war period, and the electoral struggles and successes of the Rexists to gain power in Belgium.
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In 1964, the world approached the twentieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War. Eugen Weber, a Romanian born, French-educated, British Veteran, and now American professor, sat down to take in the impact of socialism, fascism, and national socialism on the 20th-century world. Having served with the British during the Second World War, Eugen Weber was no stranger to the violent upheaval these ideologies had, and indeed are having.
In the Narrator's opinion, the compilation of this work is invaluable in a current atmosphere of domestic ideological cleavings. Writing nineteen years after the Second World War, a war which Professor Weber fought in, this work has topical adjacency to the real physical manifestations of such phenomena. Additionally, written in the early sixties, the work does not suffer the estrangement and misdefinition of the terms it seeks to educate on.
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